You cannot be serious? You just described a category of devices, not the device itself. The whole is always greater than the sum of its parts, thats called value add. Apple adds value by their slick industrial design and tight SW/HW integration. It does not matter what Google and the Free Software guys want, theft it is theft. Samsumg did not merely borrow from the look and feel, they stole it, pure and simple. The Galaxy may not be an exact replica, but its close enough to mistake if for an iPad just a few feet away. That should be the criteria.

It's wrong if consumers have a hard time to identify what it is, but it's hard to make a tablet computer that hasn't a rectangular screen. If it's black and rectangular most stuff will look like an iPad to some people. But hey, most VCR's were black flat boxes.

I think the UI and its icons are more an area where it shouldn't be alright to copy stuff, like Samsung did. This would make a lot of people believe it's an iPad.